OUR HISTORY
CASE STUDY
Chicago Transit Authority – Oracle E-Business Suite ERP
DTI’s Roles
DTI provided IBM, CTA’s system integrator during the initial implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite, functional and technical E-Business Suite consultants in the financial system area. These consultants learned the business of the CTA and performed the following:
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Required configuration and customizations to meet CTA’s need as a large city transit authority.
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Interface development to connect E-Business Suite to the CTA’s internal systems and external third-party systems.
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Performance testing to help ensure the system handled CTA’s volumes.
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Integration testing to make sure Oracle’s EBS worked with the CTA’s other systems.
Based on DTI’s work for them in the past, the CTA brought DTI back as a subcontractor to AST in 2016 to assist in the update to EBS Release 12, which was successfully completed.
Highlights:
Industry / Customer Profile
SLED / Large Transit Authority
Services:
IT Consulting – Enterprise Solutions
Solution:
Oracle E-Business Suite
Partners:
System Integrators: IBM, AST
Software Provider: Oracle
Challenges:
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Implementing an ERP system for a large transit authority.
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Establishing standard business processes in a complex and changing environment.
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Integrating systems that are critical to the CTA with the new ERP system.
Benefits/Results:
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Financial and human capital processes were streamlined, the quality of the financial and human capital data was improved, and the information is now available online to authorized users at the CTA.
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Via an employee self-service portal, CTA employee can view their paystubs and annual tax information, update their taxpayer information, and use a variety of other employee self-service functions.
Overview:
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the mass transit operator in Chicago for buses and rapid transit trains. It has 1.5 million daily riders. The CTA service connects with Metra, the commuter rail, and Pace, the suburban bus and paratransit service. The CTA, Metra, and Pace are financially supported by the Regional Transportation Authority.
CTA selected the Oracle E-Business Suite to meet its financial and human capital needs. IBM was selected as the system integrator to implement the new system in the early 2000s.